Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds Web Search
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers general availability for Web Search, a fully managed tool to ground AI agents in current web knowledge. This eliminates the need for custom integrations with external search providers, simplifying agent development and enhancing response accuracy with multi-source grounding. The feature is available today in the US East (N. Virginia) region and is optimized for token-efficient retrieval of relevant information.
- →General availability of Web Search for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- →Simplified agent development by removing undifferentiated heavy lifting
- →Enhanced response accuracy with multi-source grounding
- →Optimized retrieval for token efficiency
- →Availability and integration details
Features (1) ›
- General availability of Web Search for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Web Search is a new tool for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that allows agents to access and ground responses in current web information. This feature was previously unavailable and required significant custom integration work.
Enhancements (3) ›
- Simplified agent development by removing undifferentiated heavy lifting
Web Search eliminates the need for developers to integrate with external search providers, manage authentication, billing, and security across multiple services. This allows developers to focus on building agent logic.
- Enhanced response accuracy with multi-source grounding
The tool combines a web index with structured knowledge graph data, providing agents with entity data and verified facts for more relevant and accurate responses than traditional web search.
- Optimized retrieval for token efficiency
Web Search is optimized for agentic retrieval, returning short, high-value excerpts that provide strong intelligence per token to the model.
Notes (1) ›
- Availability and integration details
Web Search is now generally available in the US East (N. Virginia) region. It is exposed as a built-in connector target on the AgentCore gateway using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/amazon-bedrock-agentcore-web-search/